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PASTORS HOLD DAILY RALLY FOR REVIVAL
Ministers Report Fine Results From Billy’s Visi
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J. K. Orr, chairman of the Atlanta
campagn committee in charge of the
Billy Sunday revival, told the mem
bers of the committee at a eeting
in the Y. M. C. A. Monday afternoon
that he is well pleased with the re
sults of the capaign sq far and that
the revival should go through the
scven weeks originally planned.
There was some talk of curtailing
the meetings to six weeks because of
the possible interference with the
gatherings of the usual Christmas
preparations and celebrations. It
was thought by some of the commit
teemen that there would be too much
doing in the way of Christmas shop
ping to expect the Tabernacle meet
ings to be crowded the week before
Christmas and the suggestion was
made that the pré-Christmas week
campaign be called off in conyequence.
The committeemen discussed the
matter thoroughly, but no official ac
tion was-taken in the matter. The
general opinion is, however, #that the
campaign go the six weeks, as origi
rally planned, and that December 23
be officially ‘scheduled as the “last
day.”
Ministers and laymen active in the
revival reiterate Mr. Orr’'s declara
tions of the remarkable good that has
followed the campaign. They are
strong for having Atlanta get the
greatest possible good out of the re
vival and want Billy to stay here just
as long as he possibly can.
Real Southern 'Cue
For Two Governors
WAYCROSS, Nov. 27.—Governor
Stuart, of Virginia, and / Governor
Dorsey, of Georgia, will have an op
portunity of eating some real Georgia
barbecue, prepared in the good old
Southern style, if the cook employed
by E. M. Thorpe, of Townsend, lives
up to his reputation when he pre
pares the barbecue for the South
Georgia live stock rally at Pine Har
bor, Saturday.
President Sessoms, of the Georgia
L.and Owners' Association, has been
officially notified by Mrs. Nellie Peters
Black, president of the Georgia Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs, that she
will be present.
Decatur Club Gets
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Squirrels and Fish
Members of the Ford Barrington
Hunting and Fishing Club, of Deca
tur, were home again Tue/sday, filled
to the brim with yarns, old and new,
and bringing back vast quantities of
squirrels and fish. Six of the hunters
pagged 96 squirrels in fifteen minutes,
tehy reported.
Among the hunters were V. S, Mor
san, Sr., V. 8. Moman, ér, J B
Johnson, J. O. Norris, W. S, McCurdy
and A. S. Aleln.
No Oppositionto
pg.lbany Officials
ALBANY, Nov. 27.—1 n one of the
auietest primaries ever held here,
\Vlavor M. W. Tift and Aldermen Jo
seph Ehrlich, R. L. Jones and H. A.
Peacock were renominated yesterday
without opposition. The nomination
amounts to election, and they will
begin new terms January 1. Only a
very light vote was polled, and very
little scratching was done.
Church to Support 2
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Foreign Missionaries
GAINESVILE, Nov. 27.—After an im
pressive Scrr nby Rev. J. M. Haymore,
the First Raptist Church of this ecity,
in less than three minutes, raised $1,500
for the support of two missionaries in
the foreign fiecld B. H. Merck volun
teered to suport one missionary alone
and contribut. 3100 toward the support
of another. Other laymen immediately
joined him. The action was .taken
quickly and spontaneously.
‘IF ANY MAN WILL,
NIGHT SERMON TEXT
ILLY SUNDAY preached Tues-
B day night to a large crowd at
the Tabernacle on “If Any Man
Will.> The sermon in full follows:
Copyright, 1917, by Willlam Ashley
Sunday.
In the seventh chapter of John
and the seventeenth verse: “If
any man will do his wlll, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether 1 speak of
myself.”
The revised version simplifies
that verse and’'says: “If any man
willeth he shall know whether I
speak of myself or for the Lord.”
I have now, and I hope and
~pray that I always will have sym
pathy with any man or- woman
that has difficulties, intellectual,
spiritual or moral, and if by any
word or advice of mine, I can
sweep the cobwebs from your vis
ion and cause you to see, I ac
count the work done just as val
uable as though I have been
privileged to aid some man er
woman already a believer into a
clear conception of his or her
responsibility and obligations to
God and the Word.
The skeptics sald, “We know
you, we' know your mother, your
brothers, your sisters and we
know where you were born. How
do we know that you are the Son
of God? How do we know that
you are true instead of false?”
Jesus sa.fi, “I say I am the Son
of God. You say I am a liar, a
fraud, a devil and a prince of
devils. Would you like to know
whether you are right or wrong?
If you do God's will you will
know that what you say is a lie
and that what I say is true.”
Will- to do God’s will and you
will know of the teaching,
whether it be from God or just I,
myself, talking.
A Georgia preacher one time
paraphrased his text by saying,
“If you want religion do it. It
won’t be long until you have it.”
In other words start out and
do what any honest man wili do
and you will not be in the dark.
Now the proof of the pudding is
not in sealing the bag or chewing
the string but it is in the eat-
Preachers to Give Up Seats on
Platform and Sit Down Among
the Audience.
If you look around the Tabernacle
platform at any of the subsequent
Billy Sunday meetings and you can't
locate the ministers, don’t for a mo
ment think they have forsaken the re
vival gatherings. Not a bit of it!
They probably will be down in the
big audiences somewhere, scattered
throughout the h[uilding. They have
decided to give up their space on the
platform to those who haven't been
regular atendants at the meetings.
At the suggestion of the Rev. W. H.
Cooper, pastor of St. John's Metho
dist Church, the ministers agreed
unanimously to go out into the high
ways, look up the men and wogien
who haven't been over to the Taber
nacle, give the invitation to go and
hear Billy preach, and then hand the
person their ministerial ticket that
carries with it the right to a reserva
tion in the “ministers section” on the
big choir platform.
The ministers met Monday with the
Atlanta campaign committee in
charge of the Sunday revival, and
they spoke encouragingly of the re
markable effects of the meetings on
their congregations. They agreed that
church attendance had been much
stimulated, tha#d additional members
have arranged to associate themselves
with the church, and that meetings of
the various church societies generally
are more successful because of the
larger attendance.
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ing. Yet we have a lot of peo
ple trying to prove the inspira
tions of Christianity by chewing
the rag.
Well, that requlires no amount
of brains nor sense nor reading
but it requires a great deal more
to put the words of my text into
practice—“lf any man willeth
then he shall know.”
I suppose as long as the United
States mints stamp coins and make
them worth one hundred cents on
the dollar, there will be found
men who will counterfeit them.
But that does not destroy the
value of the genuine. You think
all the more of it.
You fiygd as long as God's
cause is going along, you will
find men that will counterfeit it.
I went to Washington one time
years ago and I met my friend
John Wilkey, he used to be a re
porter on the Chicago Tribune
when I was playing ball. We be
came fast friends. I went to his
room one time to see him and
he showed me thousands of dol
lars made by counterfeiters. I
had a good dollar in my pocket
and I wasn’t fool enough to
throw it away on the White
House grounds. That one good
dollar would buy more than all
the hundreds of counterfeits that
I had looked at. It made me
think more of it because we only
counterfeit good thingg nowadays.
Now Jesus Christ foretold all
this in his prophecy about the
kindgom of Heaven being like a
grain of mustard seed, and the
birds shall build their nests in
the branches.
That prophecy has been ful
filled so today in most of the
churches and you can find any
thing from a hungry bird to a
turkey buzzard.
In a town one time out in Illi
nois something -was sald in the
sermon that made a young fel
low mad. He went our cursing
and damning and said he did not
belleve in the Bible or God. That
young fellow was a Mason. So
they had a session called at the
lodge.
The next day a friend of mine
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Pleasant Surprise for the Evan
gelist and Ma When Young
Son Arrives.
Billy Sunday and Ma got the sur
prise of their life Monday morning
when !n walked Billy Sunday, Jr.,
fresh from the Blair Schgol, in
Blairstown, N. J.
Billy, Jr., is a husky young chap,
full of vim and ready for most any
emergency. The members of the Sun
day party knew all about young Bil
ly's proposed visit to Atlanta. But
they didn’t mention it to “the boss”
or to Ma. They wanted to surprise
Billy, Jr.’s, parents. And they did.
Mrs. George Sunday was in on the
secret and she was down at the Ter
minal Station early Monday morning
to greet Billy, Jr. Then Billy, Sr.,
and Ma were awakened. There was
a happy reunion and everybody had
breakfast. It was a sort of “Thanks
glving dinner,” since Billy, Jr.,, has
only a day or two off from school and
he expects to rush back to the class
room Wednesday.
Billy, Jr., is the evangelist's sec
ond son. He's still in his. “teens.”
Another son, Paul Sunday, is in Chi
cago with his married sister. Ma
Sunday is planning to go home for a
short visit next week.
ELKS' MEMORIAL SPEAKER.
ALBANY, Nov. 27.—Judge Edward
R. Hines, of Milledgeville, will deliver
the annual oraticn at the Elks’ me
morial exergises here next Sunday
afternoon in the Municipal Audito
rium. Judge Hines takes the place of
Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledgevilel, who
could not appear on account of the
serious illneg of his only daughter in
Washington, D. C.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 28, 1917
ILLY SUNDAY preached Tucs-
B day afternoon at the Tabernacle
on the twenty-fifth verse of the
kftn chapter of Jeremiah, “Your
iniquities have turned away these
things and your sins have withholden
good things from you.” §FNe sermon,
n full, follows:
Copyright, 1917, by William Ashley
Sunday.
In Jeremiah the fifth chapter,
twenty-fift: verse, “Your iniqui
ties have turned away these
things, and your sins have with
holden good things from you.”
In that verse of the scriptures,
Jeremiah is giving the explana
tion for the existence of a sad
state and condition of things in
his day. He came as the prophet
of God, the Just, to whom cer
tain things had been promised.
When God entered into a cove
nant with them He promised them
ample provision for thelr needs.
He said: “I will pour down the
early and the latter rains upon
your lands.”
He promised them peace, “Peace
1 leave with you, My peace I
give unto you; not as the world
giveth, give 1 unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid.”
He promised them joy and
gladness, “Because thou servedst
not the Lord thy God with joy
fulness, and with gladness of
heart, for the abundance of all
things.” ‘
He promised them prosperity,
“This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou
ghalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest obServe
to do according to all that is writ
ten therein; for then thou shalt |
have good success.” |
He promised them victory,
“How should one chas ea thou
sand and two put ten thousand to
flight, except their rock had sold |
them, and the Lord had shut them
up?” ‘
He promised them honor, “And {
it shall come to pass, if thou ‘
shalt hearken diligently unto the ‘
volce of the Lord thy God, to ob
serve and to do all His command- J
ments which I command thee this
day that the Lord thy God will
set thee on high above all na
tions of the earth.”
“And the Lord shall make thee ‘
the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and |
thou shalt not be beneath; if that
thou hearken unto the command
ments of the Lord thy God, which
I command thee this day, to ob
serve and to do them.”
Such were a few of the num
berless promises that God,
through the prophets of old *had
given to the people and the peo
ple desired these promises.
So desirable were they, that no
sane man or woman could fail to
long for their fulfillment, and yet
by the people these things were
not possessed., Instead of God
pouring down the early and latter
rain for three years and six
months, it did not rain a drop and
the dew never fell.
Instead of peace, there was
trouble; instead of joy, there was
gorrow and affliction; instead of
prosperity, there was adversity,
instead of victory, there was de
feat; and instead of honor, there
was dishonor.
They went into captivity and
paid tribute to a foreign nation.
What was the reason for this?
Was God bankrupt? Did God
make promises intending to ful
fill them and then conditions arose
that made it impossible for Him
to do it? Oh, no! A thousand
times no!
You've got to look for the ex
planation of the failure from a
different source than that, and
Jeremiah knew where it belonged,
and he laid the blame in the right
place, when he said, in the words
Sunday Worker Says
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Movies Rob Children
‘Of Proper Ideals’
The Sunday school teachers of
Atlanta heard a crisp and vigor
ous discourse Monday evening,
delivered by Miss Alice Miriam
Gamlin, a member of the Billy
Sunday party, at the First Bap
tist Church. >
Miss Gamlin sald that the
trend of the movies was to rob
children of proper ideals.
“I don't believe censorship
helps much,” Miss Gamlin sald.
“T believe in canning the whole
business, except for films of the
educational type.”
Miss Gamlin also stated her
belief that the doing away of the
old custom of personal testimony
in the church was a very bad
thing, depriving children of some
wonderful opportunities.
of my text, as he addressed it to
the people: “Your iniquities have
turned away these things, and
your sins have withholden good
things from you.”
If you want to know why it
doesn’t rain—it is your fault. If
You want to know why there is
no joy, it is your fault. If you
want to know why there is no
peace, it is your fault. If you want
to know why there is no prosper
ity, it is your Tault. If you want
to know why there's no victory,
it is your fault. If you want to
know why you are in captivity, it
is ycur fault,
If you want to know why you
are iniquitous, it is your fault.
I you want to know why God
keeps the good things from you,
it’s your fault. It’s not unfaith
fulness on God's part. But in the
sins of the people was found the
explanation for the failure.
Now »s 8 ministers of the gospel
of Jesus Christ, we are sent to
prcelaim God’'s message to the
people, and as messengers of God,
we are asked to come and speak
God’s message. Now, I find cer
tain things promised for us to
proclaim.
For example. God has promised
forgiveness, "Veri!i, verily, 1 say
unto you, He that heareth My
word, and believeth on Him that
sent Me, hath everiasting life,
and shall not come into condem
nation; but is passed from death
unto life.”
God has promised peace, “These
joy. “The God of hope fill you
thdt in Me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribu
lation; but be of good cheer; I
have overcome the world.”
God has promised fullness of
Joy, “The God of hope fill you
with joy ahd peace in believing.”
He has prom#sed emancipation
from sin, “For sin shall not have
dominion over you; for ye are
not under the law, but under
grace.”
He has promised victory, “There
hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man; but
God is faithful, who will not suf
fer you to be tempted above that
ye are able; but will witnh the
temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to
bear it.”
He has promisad provision for
every need, “But my God shall
supply all your need according to
His riches in Glory by Christ
Jesus.” Not all you want! You
may want a great many things
you don’t need. God says, “I will
supply all your need according to
my richkes in Glory.” You may
want ice cream, but you can get
along without it. See? “I will
supply all your need according to
My riches in Glory.”
Such are a few of the number
less promisres which make the life
of the believer full of glory and
full of peace. To us, as believers,
they are promised; as belicvers
they should be desired with a
yearning which daily and hourly
increases with intenpity. We
ought to long for the fulfillment
of these things, and let me ask
you, are they possessed?
There are thousands of people
today who have had the higher
and richer experiences ur a Chris
tian life who are absolute stran
gers to the church. They do not
know the A. B. C.’s out of which
to write God's peace; they do not
know perfect forgiveness; they
have no personal assurance of
salvation; they hkave no wperfect
peace. Their lives are a constant
prey to anxiety; dJircumstances
upset them; they have no experi
ence as to the keeping power of
Jesus Christ; in the hour of temp
tation they are not fllled with
joy, but they are gloomy.
They are not victorious, but
they are defeated, and their cry
seems to be, “Oh, wretched man
that I am! Who shall deliver me 7"
“For the law of the spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and
death.” It is just th: opposite
from that.
And let me ask you another
question. Why is it that the life
lived by the average Christian af
fords such a sad and bitter con
trast to that pictured on the
pages of the New Testament?
Let me ask you another ques-
Billy Sunday has figured that
about 200,000 persons have heard him
preach at the Tabernacle since he
started his Atlanta campaign.
There are some Christians associ
ated with Atlanta churches who
haven’t yet darkened this Taber
nacle, and I've been here four weeks,”
is what Billy told his afternoon audi
ence at the Tabernacle Wednesday.
The building was less than one-third
filled and most of those in the audi
ence were women. There were a
batch of children, too, and frequent
ly Billy stopped in the middle of his
sermon to caution mothers not to
let their children play in the saw
dust aisles.
Once, when a woman who came In
late for the meeting, was making
her way toward the platform, Billy
shouted to the usher near the door
through which she entered:
“Don’'t let anybody come down
here while I''m preaching; not even
the mayor of the city!”
The 200,000 persons who have heard
Billy haven’t left as much money be
hind them in the Tabernacle, Billy
declared, as a circus would take out
of Atlanta in two days. '
Billy was apparently very much
peeved Wednesday afternoon. He de
clared the revival is lagging and that
the one big weakness of the Atlanta
campaign is the lack of personal
work.
“There’s nobody to lift a finger,”
shouted Billy, “to urge a man or wo
man to come to Christ. You expect
me to do all the preaching and get
down and plead with men and women
to accept Christianity while you sit
around and wistfully look on.”
What the revival needs just now,
Billy emphasized, is more prayers.”
Billy declared an angel couldn’t
spend a week in Atlanta with the
“so-called church people” and get
back again to Heaven without
first having to fumigate its wings.
He rapped those who “keep booze
in their homes” and referred to them
as “saloon keepers.” He pleaded for
a revival in literature and declared
that if all the objectionable books
now stacked up in the private li
braries of Atlanta were taken out and
burned, there wouldn’'t be enough
paper left in sgme of the homes to
“bang your hair or kindle a fire.”
Billy, in his opening praver,
thanked God “for 30 cent cotton” and
for Georgia's prosperity. He deélar
ed Atlanta shouldn’t let a day go by
without praving for the success nt‘i
the Allies. He insisted that “we are
not saving enough food, but are gor
mandizing while our soldiers are in
need of food.” He urged that At
lantans eat one potato instead of two,
that they eat less sugar and meat
and that they stfnd behind the na
tional government in its conserva
tion plans so that the food so nm'vs-i
sary for the successful prosecution of
the war might be saved and sent to
“our allies across the seas.”
Billy predicted that “unless we get
busy right now and save more food
stuffs, we will be on rations inside
of a year.” He prayed for defeat of
“that horde of Huns, who have out-|
raged women and killed children in
their Godless warfare” and he closed
with this: :
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that you
draw yvour sword and jab it right
through that bunch of cut-throats.”
George Brewster conducted the song
service before Billy’s arrival. Al
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernacle,
was at the piano.
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tion. lls the Christian life as pic
tured in the Bible too high for
human attainment? Oh. no! Did
God tell you to do something that
He knew you could never achieve?
Don’t you have the audacity to
say that is true. That is a lie!
God did not put the Christ life
too high for human attainment.
‘When God commands all men to
repent, God knows all men can re
pent, or God would not com
mand them to do it. God's prom
jses are never meant to be un
fulfilled. Is God trifling with His
people? No!
Is the Christ life an ideal to
ward which you must always long
and approximate but never real
ize? Must it be something that
I'd like to possess, but it is too
high for me to reach? No! It is
something that I would like to
own, that I have not the ability
to own? No!
But the explanation is in the
text. I.et me read {t again.
“Your iniquities have turned away
those things, and your sins have
withholden good things from
you.”
Failure with ourselves, not with
God. Then that means self-ex
amination to find out why you
have failed. Isn’t that right? Cer
tainly!
I.et me ask you another ques-
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(George M. Sunday, who is
seeking a place in the transpor
tation service of the army that
he may get overseas at the
earliest possible moment.
Wife Will Follow if
G Sunday Goes
Into Service at Front
If George Sunday, son and
business manager of the famous
Billy. is successful in his appli
cation for a commission in the
United States army and gets over
to France with General Per
shing’s army, as he plans, Mrs,
George Sunday is planning to fol
low him to France and probably
go in for nursing wounded sol
diers,
Mrs. Sunday is every bit as
’ patriotic as George or Billy. She,
| too, wants to do her ‘“bit” for her
- country, When George left At
| lanta for Washington to talk with
| War Department officials regard
ing his proposel commission, he
said he would arrange for Mrs.
George Sunday and the two chil=™
dren to go to Los Angeles to live
until he returns from the “front.”
But Mrs. George isn't strong for
~ staying “‘over here” while George
is pluggirg away “over there,”
She says if George goes she'll
follow him.
George is expected back in At
lanta in a few days with a com
mission in the army tucked un
' der his arm. He has volunteered
his services to Uncle Sam in
whatever capacity his country
sees fit to place him. He pre
fers, however, association with
the motor transportation corps of
General Pershing’'s army because
of his familiarity with motor
driven trucks.
Shri H
riners to Hear
Billy on Wednesday
It will be “Shriner’s Night” at the
Billy Sunday Tabernacle Wednesday
night,
Members of Yaarap Temple will
turn out in a body, and it is expected
there will be several hundred in the
delegation. Each Shriner will woar‘
his fez and the members will be ac-|
companied by their wives and rela
tives and sweethearts. 1
The Yaarab Chanters will accom
pany the Shriners.and will sing. It
will be impossible to bring along the
famous band, since some of its mem
bers have gone to Montgomery for a
special ceremonial.
The Shriners will meet at the eorner
of Edgewood avenue and Jaokson‘
street at 7 o'clock, and will march in a
body to the Tabernacle, where special
seats will be reserved for them in the
center section.
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Every evening, for about fi
.mlnutvs befqre the usual Tabemv\
service, there gather in a small 001
under the choir platform in the D
building a group of Atlanta mini
‘N‘rs. The object of the gathering
ostensibly for prayer for the succes
of the revival, g
There are prayers, and the min ,‘
ters invoke blessings on Billy and
co-workers, the audience and
whole city. Then come some info
talks on the results of the Sun
!l‘fllnl)aik‘,‘n in Atlanta as seen by th
Individual ministers. 'j;
Over in the postoffice at the T\ b
ernacle are little mail boxes assigne
to each of the churches in Atlan ¢
And into these boxes are put e e
!nighr the cards whiéh are signed b
the “trail hitters” at the meetings
| On the cards are the “church preses
ences” of the hitters. The minigtel
are reached through the “preferences:
us the Gonverts, 4
. To get back to the ministers,
l Experiences Are Told.
. Following the prayers they infor
| mally relate some of their experience
with the “trai] hitters” reaches
through the little cards in the post
office boxes. The pastor of a promi
nent church in Peachtree street told
how one man reached by Billy at th
meetings had come to him and has
promised to quit peddling liquor be.
cause, said the clergyman, the ma;
had been ‘“touched” by Billy's fre
uent tales of the wrecked lives an
homes that follow booze drinking,
“This man told me he wasn’t goin
|tr) be risponsible for the smashin
‘[nl' any person’s home,” said the min.
ister, “and that he was determine
to quit peddling booze and 20 into
business that was more uplifting,
“I askeA him if he hag made a habif
of that sort of thing and he told my
he has sold booze indigcriminately so
about four months, and that he wa;
making a good living at it. But B
added that Billy had reached his hea r
one night at the Tabernacle and here:
after he's going to ecut it out ant
bring his family to church. Thai
man is arranging now to become z
member of my Bible class.” f
Another minister from the We
’ End told of a young man and his w
i\\'hu had “hit the trail” in the b:
'v\'(mdv-n building and whom he h A
reached through one of the “conve -
l:nun cards.” He found, he said, th
neither of them had been inside @
‘wh“:n h for years, and that their thred
children had never been to Sabbath
school. ]
“I arranged to take them into m v
\(-hmw h,” said the minister, “and I be
lieve they will stick to the “straid
‘umi narrow.” To Billy Sunday’s in
fluence they attribute their determi
‘n:ltiun to seek Christ for themselvey
| and their children,” /
} Remarkable Good Done.
Several other ministers told of hay
| ing reached men and women who had
'handed their cards to the Tabernael
ushers, and it was the general opinion
of the clergymen that the revival i§
showing tangible evidences of grea
good.
Dr. Isaac Ward, who attends th
meetings of the ministers each nigh
asked the pastors if, in their opinion,
the persons they have reached
through the “trail hitters’ ” cards were
really sincere in their determination
to lead the “better life.”
The ministers generally agreed that|
not in one instance where_ thex‘ naa
been brought in contact with a “tn
hitter” had there been shown the leas
inclination to insincerity. It was theig
opinion that those who walk the Saw =~
dust aisles are determined to do the
right thing, and that in every instane d
the persons they have reached wers
whole-heartedly influenced and we
determined to not only “get right wl-
God,” but to “stay right. b
Hold Sunrise Service
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On Thanksgiving Da
The annual sunrise Thanksgivin
service will be held Thursday
Decatur Presbyterian Church ungl
the avspices of the Christian En deas
or Scciety. It will begin at
o'clock. ] : i
The sunrise service has been h
every Thanksgiving Day for
vears. g